jazcat wrote:Hi all. I am extremely lucky to be here. I am an inveterate reader but, for some unknown reason, had never found Mr. Pratchett's works. About 3 months ago I saw Snuff in the library and, well, the rest is history. I have read or listened to about a dozen of the books so far and just bought 26 books on eBay. That should keep me for a few more weeks.

Welcome Jazcat. I envy you your voyage of discovery!

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I'm Sophie, 26 and live near Manchester and have been reading Terry Pratchett novels for a very very long time, he was the first person to get me in to "fantasy" and I've been hooked ever since!

I've actually joined up looking for information - I'm doing an OU course and one of my extended pieces of work is on how different myths or mythical characters have been "re-used" by other people in other periods of history. The first one that jumped out at me was The Last Hero/Prometheus but I haven't got much further than that and thought maybe somebody here could give me a hand or at least a prod in the right direction!

Lords and Ladies is full of Celtic myth references with the Queen of the Fairies and the Long Man (as is I Shall Wear Midnight) drawing on British folklore. Small Gods too has some recycled and satirised biblical parallels like pious old ladies in parables and the fate of prophets and hermits (St. Ungulant?). Unseen Academicals has references to harpies (The Little Sisters of Perpetual Motion? who follow Nutt) and there's a Medusa from Pseudopolis in the Watch briefly referred to in Snuff is it?

There must be loads more with the Four Horsemen of the Apocralypse cropping up several times with Death in tow and the terracotta army (in legend form) in Interesting Times - lots of things to cherry pick

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